The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-20
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81 Tho Donate,
WARRINGTON, Dec. l0.-In tho Senate
to-day tho report oil Treasury Agent Tin.
gle on the Alaska seal fisheries, was
received.
Mr.. Blair made q favorable and uuani.
mous report from the Committee on Ed.
ucation and Labor on the Educational
bill.
Nr. Palmer introduced bill 10 provide
for tho gupprosaion OF contagious diueEses
Of cattle and 10 facilitate the expectation
OF live stock. .E
Among tho papsra presented to the
Senate was q communication from the
Secretary Of tho Treasury, enclosing copies
Of papers relating to the recent bonding
oil tho Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
Referred to Committee on Commerce.
Also memorial Of the constitutional
convention oil tho Territory Of Utah, aak.
Ing Animation into the Union o. State,
with copien Of the constitution. Rsierred
10 Committee Oh Territories. I.
Mr. Sherman moved the reference oil
the Pfeaident'a message, and gave notice
that on this motion he would Rddresa the
Senate after tho holidays.
The following bills were reported favor.
ably from committees and placed on the
calendar: To eOtabliah two additional land
Offices IN Colorado; to provide In certain
CasOs for tho forfeiture OF wagon road
grants in Oregon; grsntingto tho State Of
California five per cent Of the net pro-
ceeds Of cash esleB OF public lands In that
State; to amend the law concerning the
commission Of ilDh md fisheries; 10 aid III
tho establishment aud temporary support
oil common schools, and 10 enable the
State Of California to take landa In lieu Of
the 10Th and Ssh sections found 10 be
mineral lands.
Among other bills introduced and re.
icrred were tho following:
BY Mr.. Frye, for the collection OF more
accurate tta!iasicg Of exports, emigration,
and immigration.
by Mt. Plat, to prohibit the msuulac.
ture aud sale Of epiritoua Intoxicating
liquors In the District OF Columbia.
BY Mr. Cullom, to annex a portion OIL
Montana to Idaho.
By Mr.. Palmer, 10 extirpa.e contagious
pleuro pneumonia, foot and mouth disease
and rinderpest among cattle. and to facIli.
tate tho expectation OF cattle and the e1.
porta ollivesto
Mr. PuHh offered the following -e,olu'
ton, and pro .eedcd 10 address the Senate
In support Of Il: -a +.
rf1R TARlFF QUESTION. 70.
Rt,olred, That tho most important and
preeaing duty OF the present session o!
Congress Is to revise and 10 amend cxist
Ing internal tax and tariff laws as TO re.
duee the annual revenues to be collected
therefrom to tho necessary wants Of the
Federal Government and no more than /,
needs to pay its mat1red dobA, and dis.
charge its obligations under the laws Of
Congress without csipplirg or deranginp
any American industries Of business or In.
tereet connected with the subjects OF tariff
taxshon or interfering with the Just rights
Of American working people, intended 10
be occurred to them by the incidental Of.
!ects OF revenue dutieg, TO share In the
joint product OF labor and capital en-.
plcyed in American mining and manuiac.
turing industries, 10 the full measure oil
the difference in tho cost oil their labo,
and tho labor of thuss engaged in simila,
industries In Europe.
Re,olred, That the Senate will concur in
no joint resolution for tho final adjourn.
mens Of the present session oil Congress
until alter tho passage OF ouch remedial
lava Rs specldsd In the foregoing resolu.
ton. - -
In the course Of hia argument Mr.. Puyh
asked whether Congress would wipe oul
all internal revenue tsxea and allow the
necessary revenue BIS raised on tariff i'm.
ports alone. He Ind never a clearer OF
stronger conviction than the conviction
that the whisky tax was perfectly Just anti
wholly unobjec.ionable, except on the
ground that 1t was direct tax. There
was nothing produced, owned and con.
suined that could supply the government
with ninety millions Of rsvenus with mere
propriety and Ices injury to any human
being than whieky.
He had never heard any valid reason.
and did not believe thsre was any valid
reaeon, why the whisky dringeIs should
be relieved from tho payment Of this tax
anu why the revenue which 1t yielded
should be e1torted by the tariff from the
consumers OF necessaries of life. He
know Of no better uso to which wbisky
could he applied than to tho production Of
ninety millions Of revenue, necessary to
pay pensions and inherent on ths war debt,
instead OF extorting that amount from
the harmleen consumption Of tho imported
article. Who insisted, he asked, that the
luxury oil whisky drinking ahould be
fresd from the burden? Was 1t The whisky
drinkers or the whisky make,s who de.
clarcd that there should be no revision OF
the tariff until every internal revenue tax
waa repealed? The cry came loudes. and
tiercest from the manufacturers and their
representatives. Tho mos. defiant and
Incorporating advocated Of free whisky
were tho manufacturers Of protected arti.
clee. g...,... -
A COMPROMISE, *
AS q general compromise .he would re.
peal tho informal tax on tobacco, for tho
sole reason that tobacco WAS an uprjcul.
sural product, and lot the tax on whisky
otand for future consideration. He de-.
clared he would vote for no duty on sny
thing manufactured In tho United Sta.es
k1,nk IL a.